Technical data:

Name:	Eye of the Wind
Former names:	Friedrich, Sam, Merry, Rose Marie
Registered port:	Jersey
Nation:	GBR
Type of rigging:	BRIGANTINE
Year built:	1911
Yard:	C. Lühring, Brake/Hammelwarden, GER
Overall length:	40.23 m
Length (hull):	31.40 m
Breadth:	7.01 m
Draught:	2.70 m
Sail area:	750 m2
Ship's hull:	Stahl / Steel
Power:	650 PS
Engine:	Caterpillar

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	Source, Location, Date: Volker Gries, Sail Bremerhaven 2000, 09/2000
	Source, Location, Date: Volker Gries, Hanse Sail Rostock 2004, 08/2004
	Source, Location, Date: Volker Gries, Hanse Sail Rostock 2004, 08/2004
	Source, Location, Date: Thomas Albert, Sail Bremerhaven 2005, 08/2005
	Source, Location, Date: Volker Gries, Hanse Sail Rostock 2011, 08/2011
	Source, Location, Date: Volker Gries, Hanse Sail Rostock 2011, 08/2011
	Source, Location, Date: Volker Gries, Hanse Sail Rostock 2012, 08/2012
	Source, Location, Date: Volker Gries, Hanse Sail Rostock 2012, 08/2012
	Source, Location, Date: Volker Gries, Hanse Sail Rostock 2012, 08/2012
	Source, Location, Date: Volker Gries, Hanse Sail Rostock 2013, 08/2013
	Source, Location, Date: Volker Gries, Hanse Sail Rostock 2013, 08/2013
	Source, Location, Date: Volker Gries, Hanse Sail Rostock 2014, 08/2014
	Source, Location, Date: Volker Gries, Hanse Sail Rostock 2014, 08/2014

Ship Profile:
Last updated: 09 Jul 2013

• built as the topsail schooner "Friedrich" at the German shipyard
  C. Luhring in Brake, used as a merchant sailing ship between Hamburg
  and Rio de la Plata.
  
• 1923 sold to Sweden, renamed to "Merry", from 1923 to 1969 she was a
  coastal freighter in the North and Baltic Seas before being converted
  step by step into a motor vessel.
  
• 1969 a fire broke out in the engine room, completely destroying the
  wheelhouse and her timber poop deck.
  
• she was bought by a British-Australian organization in 1973
  and rigged as a brigantine.
  
• she circumnavigated the globe in 1976-78 and 1978-80.
  
• from 1982, she undertook cruises out of Hobart/Australia
  
• the ship was completely overhauled in 1987.
  
• sailed with the fleet to the 200th anniversary celebrations of the
  discovery of Australia in Sydney and then on to Lisbon in 1991;
  rounded Cape Horn and took part in the 1992 Columbus Regatta.
  
• she also sailed in the 1996 Cutty Sark Tall Ships Race from
  from Rostock-St. Petersburg-Turku-Copenhagen.
  
• in 2000 the International Sailing Craft Association (ISCA) tried
  to keep the vessel under British flag and continue to sail in the
  same spirit, as a sail training ship; this project failed because
  of economical reasons.
  
• on the end of 2000 sold to a Danish owner how wants to convert and
  use as a private yacht, general overhaul in Hvide Sande, DK in 2001,
  new accomodation, new decks, new sails and conforming to the highest
  safety standards, 2002 replacement of the Gardner engine by a stronger
  Caterpillar in Curacao, Caribbean.
  
• in April 2009 purchased by the German operator "train & sail", used for team building
  and maritime education programmes, mainly for managers; since 2013
  registerred as sail training ship.
  

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Thu Oct 24 20:17:04 2002, J. Erdmann added the following:
Die 'Eye of the Wind' war 1995 in dem Film 'White Sqall' von Ridley Scott als Segelschulschiff 'Albatros' zu sehen.